Muharram
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Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar and one of four sacred months when warfare is forbidden. The tenth day of Muharram, called Ashura, is an important religious observance—Sunni Muslims commemorate Moses parting the Red Sea through voluntary fasting, while Shia Muslims observe it as a day of mourning for Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad.
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- Ashura 2016 mourning in Imam Hossein Square, Tehran 02.jpg
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- Ashura procession in Iran, 2016
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- Islamic calendar
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- 1
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- 29–30 (depends on actual observation of the moon's crescent)
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- Ashura
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- Dhu al-Hijja
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- Safar
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- Ashura
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- Battle of Karbala
- Other Islamic events
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Al-Muharram () is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year when warfare is banned. It precedes the month of Safar. The tenth of Muharram is known as Ashura, an important day of commemoration in Islam. For Sunni Muslims, the day commemorates the parting of the Red Sea by Moses and the salvation of the Israelites, observed through voluntary fasting and other permissible expressions of gratitude. By contrast, Ashura is a day of mourning for Shia Muslims, who annually commemorate the death of Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the third Shia imam. Husayn was killed, alongside most of his relatives and his small retinue, in the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE against the army of the Umayyad caliph Yazid ibn Mu'awiya (). The Shia rituals span the first ten days of Muharram, culminating on Ashura with mourning processions in Shia cities. Also in Muharram, the Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem was initially set as the direction of prayer for early Muslims.
==Origins== Muharram () is the first month of the Islamic calendar, with (at most) thirty days. Warfare in Muharram is forbidden, and it has been so since before the advent of Islam. The word is short for "Muharram Safar" (), which distinguishes in the ancient Arab calendar between Safar I, which was sacred, and Safar II, which was not. Over time, however, the adjective itself became the name of the first month of the year.